prestigious

English

Alternative forms

• præstigious (archaic)

Etymology

Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige +‎ -ous. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/, /pɹə-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/, /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/, /pɹə-/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʒəs, -iːd͡ʒəs

Adjective

prestigious (comparative more prestigious, superlative most prestigious)

1. Of high prestige.

   She has a prestigious job with an international organization.

Derived terms

• prestigiously
• prestigiousness

Collocations

• prestigious award
• prestigious prize
• prestigious job
• prestigious address
• prestigious school
• prestigious university
• prestigious college
• prestigious club
• prestigious journal
• prestigious firm
• prestigious institution
• prestigious office

Translations

of high prestige

• Arabic: ذُو مَقَام (ḏū maqām)
• Aragonese: prestichioso
• Belarusian: прэсты́жны (prestýžny)
• Bulgarian: престижен (prestižen)
• Catalan: prestigiós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 久负盛名 (zh) (jiǔfùshèngmíng), 享有声望的

• Czech: prestižní (cs)
• Dutch: prestigieus (nl)
• Esperanto: prestiĝa
• Finnish: maineikas (fi), arvovaltainen (fi)
• French: prestigieux (fr)
• Galician: prestixioso
• German: hoch angesehen, prestigeträchtig (de), repräsentativ (de), herrschaftlich
• Ido: prestijo (io)
• Indonesian: prestisius (id)
• Interlingua: prestigiose
• Italian: prestigioso (it)
• Malay: berprestij
• Polish: prestiżowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: prestigioso
• Russian: прести́жный (ru) (prestížnyj)
• Spanish: prestigioso
• Swedish: prestigefull, prestigefylld (sv)
• Ukrainian: прести́жний (prestýžnyj)
• Volapük: prästigik, leprästigik

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prestigious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.